Bloggers Join The Impeach-Arroyo Drive

Manolo Quezon and bloggers filed a complaint for intervention seeking to include the thwarted Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to the charges in the impeachment complaint against President Gloria M. Arroyo. I admit I am not that knowledgeable of the political situation but thanks to my dear husband he explained to me Why The Intervention in the Impeachment Case is Proper and Should Be Allowed. The intervention move seeks to include among the grounds for impeachment GMA’s complicity in the aborted MOA which would have established a Bangsamoro Juridical Entity and effectively given away a significant chunk of the republic to the MILF. This can be viewed as treason.

I laud the bloggers for taking this action. It’s so easy to blog, rant, talk and comment about the state of our nation, our president and the corruption and all we want in our blogs and I believe it is not enough.

As a Filipino citizen, I have a vested right to ensure, by whatever lawful means, that the laws of the land are upheld and violators held accountable. I am one with the bloggers who will join the launch of an online revolution.

Instead of taking to the streets, Richard Rivera (one of the intervenors) said that the bloggers have opened two websites on which will be posted scandals involving Malacanang. Bloggers are an untapped force with as many as 3.1 million bloggers in the Philippines based on a Synovate survey.

I know it won’t be easy and it could be a long shot. Who said change was easy anyway? It isn’t easy to get out of our comfort zone. Some of us may be jaded or disillusioned because the People Power Revolution failed to bring us to real change and recovery. I continue to hope and hope for the sake of my children’s future, and the future of their children.

I talked about the SONA 2008: A Mother’s Hope for the sake of my children’s future. I have hopes that our future politicians will do their jobs and ““walk the talk”.

I am also aware that I am powerless over the big tasks ahead. I have no power to control others, what they do, what they did, or what they might do. I recognize that I should stop wasting my time and energy trying to change and control that which I cannot change and control.

The only change I have control of is my attitude and my actions. I continue to have faith and hope.

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You may contact Noemi (noemidado @ gmail.com) for speaking and consultancy services in the following areas: Parenting in the Digital Age (includes pro-active parenting on cyber-bullying and bullying) ; Social Business ; Reinventing One’s Life; and social media engagement.
Our parenting workshop is called "Prep to Prime (P2P): Parenting in the Digital Age (An Un­Workshop)"
P2P Un­Workshops are conducted by two golden women in their prime, Noemi and Jane, who have a century’s worth of experience between them. They are both accomplished professionals who chose to become homemakers. This 180­degree turn also put them on a different life course which includes blogging, social media engagement and citizen advocacy. They call their un­workshops Prep to Prime or P2P, for short, to emphasize the breadth of their parenting experience.
They tackle different aspects and issues of parenting ­­ from managing pregnancies, prepping for the school years of children, dealing with househelp, managing the household budget, to maximizing one’s prime life and staying healthy through the senior years.